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Essentials of economics

Focusing on applications and policy rather than formal economic theory, this text for a first course in economics presents introductory material on principles and theory, then covers supply and demand, the public and private sectors, macroeconomics, money and prices, and economic fluctuations. This続きを読む

Ten principles of economics --
Thinking like an economist --
Interdependence and the gains from trade --
The market forces of supply and demand --
Elasticity and its application --
Supply, demand, and government policies --
Consumers, producers, and the efficiency of markets --
Application: the costs of taxation --
Application: international trade --
Externalities --
Public goods and common resources --
The costs of production --
Firms in competitive markets --
Monopoly --
Measuring a nation's income --
Measuring the cost of living --
Production and growth --
Saving, investment, and the financial system --
The basic tools of finance --
Unemployment and its natural rate --
The monetary system --
Money growth and inflation --
Aggregate demand and aggregate supply --
The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand --
Glossary.